Montesquieu
3 quotes.
Quotes by Montesquieu
- If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
- Now this is how I define talent; it is a gift God has given us in secret, which we reveal without knowing it.
- The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life, which come to every one, for hours of delight.